/lit/ - Literature

>>20920471
>I understand LitRPGs are popular because video games
LitRPGs aren't popular because of video games. The genre is popular because it distills elements already presented in many books, the power progression of the protagonist or other characters. That's why litrpgs and power fantasy genre are mentioned in the same breath and read by both groups of readers. But in comparison to the 'progression fantasy,' LitRPGs go even further and quanitfy the progress into numbers and specific names for powers.

LitRPGs aren't popular because they are video games in literary form, they are popular because they use the same MECHANICS used in video games. A character does something and grows, but the growth is literal in form of numbers. Instead of just gaining some undefined 'experience' in combat, a character gains a level in their Class. Or raises their stats. It's a fantasy of action and feedback. The gains are real and concrete. That's what it's all about.

In a way, the coming of this genre was inevitable. I've seen books that focused on characters' progression long before LitRPG genre came to be, but the authors were blind, fumbling in the sea of books, not truly understanding what they want. Only now people have specified what they really want.

>>20364118
>>20364119
>>20364122
Seconding, older female authors like Mercedes Lackey write a lot of sex in their fantasy. It's funny how people make fun of men writing sex in fantasy, but female authors take prim in that. Especially this day and age, when the top of fantasy lists is basically fantasy porn written by women, i.e. The Court of Thorns and something something. Or Sarah J. Mass's books in general.